webster at lexmark.com wrote:
>>I see two ways to do this:
>1) Make it a list member with 'nomail' checked.
>2) When this account first tried to send e-mail to a list, it was not a
>member, the note was held, & the moderator was notified. On the
>moderators html page (/admindb/), I can check the box 'Add ... sender' &
>select the radio button 'Accepts' .
>>So, now a few questions:
>1) Can/How #2 be done before-hand (before the e-mail is held because the
>sender is not a member of the list), on the website ?
>2) related to #1: How can this 'accept this address as sender' be undone
>?
For both 1 and 2 go to the admin Privacy options...->Sender filters
page and look at the Non-member filters.
>3) & most importantly: Is there a way to make this default for all new
>[created] lists ? Can I set some 'default' so that a specified e-mail
>address is either accepted as a sender without being a member, or make it
>a member which doesn't receive mail ('nomail'), for all new lists at their
>creation ?
No. You can set
DEFAULT_GENERIC_NONMEMBER_ACTION = 0
in mm_cfg.py, to accept posts from all non-members by default until you
change it, but this isn't what you want.
You could do something like the following:
Create a file containing the one line
accept_these_nonmembers = ['the_bot at example.com']
Then you could create a shell script similar to
#!/bin/sh
bin/newlist $1
bin/config_list -i path/to/file/above $1
and use that to create lists. I can't think of a similar way to do this
if you want to create lists from the web.
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